Supporting foot or rest for pots or kettles.



No. 768,680. v PATENTED AUG. 30, 1904. G. W. NORWOOD. SUPPORTING FOOT 0RBEST FOR POTS 0R KETTLBS. I

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 15, 1904 N0 MODEL.

UNrTEn STATES Patented August 30, 1904.

ATENT GEORGE WV. NORWOOD, OF SHORE, TENNESSEE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 768,680, dated August30, 1904.

Application filed February 15, 1904. Serial N0.'193,567| (No model.)

1'0 (0M w/wm it may concern.-

Be it known thatI, GEORGE W. NORWOOD, a citizen of the United States,residing at Shore, in the county of Giles and State of Tennessee, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Supporting Feet or Restsfor Pots or Kettles, of which the following is a specification,reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention retates to a supporting foot or rest for pots andkettles, and has for its object the provision of a simple device of thischaracter possessing structural characteristics whereby the kettle-footwill always be supported at the center of the device and the weight ofthe kettle equally distributed throughout the same and means preventingslipping of the device over the surface upon which the same is placed.

With the foregoing object in view a convenient embodiment of theinvention comprises the novel details of construction to be hereinaftermore particularly described, and set forth in the hereto-appended claim.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part hereof, Figure l is aperspective view of the device; Fig. 2, avertical section thereof; Fig.3, a top plan view, and Fig.4 a bottom plan view.

Referringmore specifically to the drawings, wherein like referencecharacters refer to corresponding parts in the several views, Adesignates the body of the foot or rest, which is frusto-conical information, the upper portion of which has a slightly-depressed portionor seat a at a point near its imaginary apex, (indicated by dotted lines6,) whereby the leg of the pot or kettle will be supported immediatelyabove the longitudinal axis of the device and constantly maintainedcentrally thereof to insure an equal distribution of the weightof thekettle through the device and upon the relatively broad base B, whichinsures against the tilting of the device. To further perfect the deviceby overcoming any tendency to slip upon the surface upon which it isplaced, the bottom thereof is hollowed out, as at C, to provide thesharp circular bearing edge D.

Relative to the use of the device above defined it may be stated thatthe same is designed, primarily, for supporting a pot or kettle over afire.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, and desiredto be secured by Letters Patent, is

A rigid supporting foot or rest for pots and kettles comprising asingle-piece solid body of frusto-conical form providedwith a seat atits upper end arranged at a point near its imaginary apex, and a broadbase, the bottom of the device being hollowed out and the inner wallsurrounding said hollow portion diverging downwardly and outwardlymeeting the exterior surface of the device at the lower part of thebase, forming a sharp bearing edge.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE W. NORVVOOD.

Witnesses:

J. P. KIDD, H. A. SrENoE.

